disassemble
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪs.əˈsɛm.bəɫ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
disassemble (third-person singular simple present disassembles, present participle disassembling, simple past and past participle disassembled)
- To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
- To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
- 2020 June 3, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11:
- The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK.
- (computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with dissemble (“to hide information deceptively”).
Related terms
Translations
to take to pieces
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